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Cornelia Reetz is a documentary filmmaker and video consultant with a passion for social justice, human rights and the environment. She has worked in nonprofit communications for almost ten years and uses her expertise to advice public and third sector organisations on how to maximise the impact of video within their communication strategy. She also produces advocacy and promotional films. In the past, she has worked with organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, the UN Department of Public Information, the Aegis Trust and many other organisations. Since November 2011, Cornelia is Creative Director at Film4Change.

 

Cornelia's production records include The Only Way, a documentary about a “freegan” Christian group that was repeatedly broadcast on British television, and Footprints an educational film commissioned by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach ProgrammeShe also produced No Safe Haven a campaigns film used by the Aegis Trust to successfully change British law on the prosecution of war criminals living in the UK. As the Audiovisual Producer at the Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, she made a series of short documentaries about the Holocaust and other genocides. Cornelia was voluntarily involved in the collection of memories of Third Reich perpetrators, bystanders and witnesses for Luke Holland’s video archive project Final Account.

 

Watch one of Cornelia's latest films, Wind of Change about community renewable energy in Scotland, below. 

 

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Cornelia has completed a series of short videos for Oxfam Germany. In the videos, three climate activists from Nigeria, Papua Newguinea and South Africa are portrayed as they visit the German Bundestag (parliament), a high school and learn about coal mining in the Lausitz region. Watch the videos on Youtube
 
Cornelia's latest documentary Wind of Change is now available on DVD. Check out the film's website for details on how to order a copy or read an interview with Cornelia about the film on STV.
 
Wind of Change has premiered at the UK Green Film Festival in May 2011. The UK Premiere took place at Leeds Picture House, where the film was shown before the screening of Oscar-nominated documentary The Garden. At Glasgow Film Theatre, Wind of Change was shown in conjuction with The Pipe.
 

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